Firefox lock file?

[NoOp]

On 02/09/2009 07:20 PM, Ray Parrish wrote:

>> One thing I have done in the past when Firefox gets confused is to start
>> it in a terminal and see if there are any error messages that point to
>> the problem.  I have also moved the existing profile to another
>> directory and let Firefox create a new profile and then restore the
>> books marks, saved passwords, etc to the new profile.
>>   
> I've tried both of those suggestions, plus marking Firefox for complete 
> removal with Synaptic and applying, then re-installing, and it still 
> will not start, claiming that it is already running. Starting it with 
> terminal returns no error messages.

Check for the pid and then kill it. Example:

$ ps -e |grep firefox
25587 ?        00:00:03 firefox

The pid for my currently running firefox is 25587, so to kill it:

$ kill 25587